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Though there wasn't much controversy at last night's MTV Video Music Awards, rapper Petey Pablo didn't even get a chance to take part in all the action. The North Carolina emcee was making his way over to the Los Angeles award show on Saturday when he was arrested at Raleigh Durham Airport after attempting to conceal a 9mm automatic pistol in his carry-on luggage...

PItbull and the City of Miami are joining forces for the "One Bullet Kills the Party" campaign. Taking to street and bus bench billboards, and television and radio ads, the campaign is bringing attention to the Fourth of July weekend's unintentional gun violence where trigger happy firearm owners blast off their artilery into the sky in added boom boom pow to the holiday's fireworks... R

Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight has once again gotten himself off the hook. The former gangsta rap kingpin was arrested on May 20 for allegedly threatening Elmwood E. Chatman with a gun during an argument in Los Angeles. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, but released several hours later after he posted a $65,000 bail...

Ja Rule will stand trial in August to face a gun possession charge served three years ago. After leaving a concert in 2007, Ja Rule, born Jeffrey Atkins and a companion were pulled over in the rapper's Maybach by the NYPD and cited for speeding, suspended registration and no insurance...

Young Money rapper Drake chose Jamaica as the setting for his 'Find Your Love' video and second official single from his upcoming album 'Thank Me Later.' The video has become a viral hit since it premiered on May 11, but its violent undertones have raised some concerns about Jamaica's image in the media...

Trouble-ridden Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame was released from jail last night, March 18. The Gucci Mane affiliate was arrested for violating his probation on Tuesday, March 16, after failing to notify his probation office that he was leaving the state...

Rapper 50 Cent is taking the movie industry by storm. Having opened up his own production company, Cheetah Vision Films, earlier this year, the rapper has reportedly signed a deal with Georgia-based entrepreneur Richard Jackson and his newly-minted Action Jackson Film that will joint finance and produce up to five films per year ...

Former Cash Money rapper B.G. was arrested in New Orleans on Tuesday, Nov. 3 marking his fourth arrest for this year alone. B.G., born Christopher Dorsey, was pulled over for a routine traffic stop, and arrested, along with two others, after police found three handguns, several loaded magazines, extended clips and drugs in the rapper's Chevy Tahoe...

Drake is preparing for the departure of his mentor and Young Money counterpart Lil Wayne when he heads off to serve a one-year prison bid for criminal possession of a weapon. "Wayne's not usually open up emotionally and tell you how he's really feeling about anything," the Canadian rapper of Wayne's impending jail time...

In the wake of Lil Wayne's guilty plea to weapons charges, his ex-wife and some of his fellow artists have taken to Twitter to show their support and express their frustration with the legal system. We say "some," as still not a word has been publicly heard from Weezy's Young Money or even Cash Money labelmates and "family...